EMU
Music by Overdrive
Lyrics by TN2

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EMU stands for "emulator" in Information Technology. The track is inspired by the cyberpunk culture of Japanese anime/manga, especially the classics Akira and Ghost in the Shell.

The idea was completely insane -- to produce an industrial/cyberpunk track sung in Japanese by a female vocalist with a very soft voice (to contrast with the dark atmosphere). The first time I verbalized this concept with someone, it sounded even weirder. So it's no surprise that none of the numerous Japanese female singers I invited accepted the proposal.

It's true that Japan is known for its innovative musical ideas -- like the death metal band Baby (with three little girls as singers); or the virtual singer Hatsune Miku (a hologram with synthesized vocals) and so on. But industrial music with female vocals is not a common occurrence. Björk and How To Destroy Angels are some of the few exceptions in the music world. And without a Japanese singer, the EMU project would never get off the ground.

Fortunately, Dreamtonics' artificial intelligence synthesized voices and its amazing Synthesizer V software are getting better and better, and I was able to use the sweet voice of Mai, a synthetic voice package created for J-pop (!).

This work wouldn't have been possible without the invaluable help of TN2 (Toku-no-2ri), group that wrote the lyrics in Japanese. Their extraordinary sense of musicality in the choice of phonemes during the creation of the lyrics proved to be a very pleasant surprise. Japanese kanji are famous for their ability to embed multiple meanings in their symbols and the first draft of TN2's lyrics was written in kanji (later rewritten in hiragana to feed Synthesizer V). The apparently simple verses carry several meanings that are unfortunately lost in the English translation.

TN2, or "Toku-no-2ri", is a psychedelic trance unit of "MASH" and "NORI". They had been inactive for a few years, but restarted the project in 2021. The group has formidable composers and I recommend checking out their incredible electronic music tracks available for free download on SC:
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Hope you enjoy the track.

LYRICS

ささやきにしげきされ
しょうどおがかけめぐる
やみにうもれたひびに
ひのひかりときはなて

だれもがゆめをみてる
さめることのないゆめ
とわにとらわれている
とわにとらわれている

[Ghost in the Shell narration]

すべてがまぼろしでも
あなたのねがいはなに
とわにとらわれること
それともめざめること

だからおしえてほしい
わたしがだれであるか
あなたがめざめるなら
わたしはうたをうたう

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Stimulated by whispers
An impulse runs through me
In the days buried in darkness
Release the sunlight

Everyone is dreaming
A dream that never wakes up
Trapped forever
Trapped forever

[Ghost in the Shell narration]

Life is like a nodal point born in an overwhelming sea of information.

And life, when organized into species relies upon genes to be its memory system.

So, man is an individual memory system only because of his intangible memory.

And a memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind.

When the advent of computers made the externalization of memories possible, you should have taken its meaning more seriously.

My code name is Project 2501.

I am a living, thinking entity who was created in the sea of information.

[End of Narration]

Even if everything is an illusion
What is your wish?
To be trapped forever?
Or to wake up?

That's why I want you to tell me
Who I am
If you wake up
I sing a song

EMU (ft TN2)

AMMIT [The Devourer]

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Written by @ft_september 
Beat prod @9st4rs

Ft_september-(psalms49) P.(9st4rs)
Written sep2nd2023 9:49am
I knew it was a lie,I can't be you're friend because our spirits not aligned,left side up,won't hesitate a second time, imma keep it pushing monster house no lookin back,virgo season meeting with a vampire you'll never know the reason,lying on my name thats treason,swear you love me what's the reason why?
Paranoid schizophrenic I got shifty eyes
All that money means nothing(psalm 49)
Won't forget hard to forgive ,this hatred isn't mine
I poses so much could never show enough spinning in my head 
damn I'm stuck Inna rutt
Expressed my feelings 
should've shut the fuck up
Reached out needed help met with "watchu got for me"
Pull up on me and we'll truly see 
Oh so scary so you flee
You need numbers and magicians 
Cause you can't face me
I'm taking shots I kill the flees
The dog in me is off the leesh,
there's no way you could neuter me
You've got no drive and aspirations it's not hard to see you're transparent and looser if you're asking me 
creep in yah mind and make yah spirit grieve 
red pill blue pill green bills 
skirt peel turn my back can't deal 
fuck you how I feel 
cant stick to you're word 
I think you should die
you did me wrong 
and got the nerve to cry 
imma stalk you make some blood fly
butter you up then I air fry 
I just wanted feel important 
(I know nobody is)
when you're alive they lie to you're face
(ever since I was a kid)
when you die they take all your stuff
(Don't touch my stuff)
dontchu dare sell my truies leave em right on my corpse
fix my belt 
fix my hair 
then throw me 
in the well
I hate you're face all you do is lie)
spyder t on my chest

@Ft_september-Psalms49 P.(9st4rs)

@ft_September-psalms49 P.(9st4rs)

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